Claudia Tenney, a Republican assemblywoman from New Hartford, has defeated Daniel Carter, a Democrat and former Herkimer County legislator, to win election in the new 101st Assembly District.

With 105 of 117 precincts reporting, Tenney had received 21,819 votes and Carter had 12,307 votes.

Tenney, 51, is wrapping up her first term representing the current 105th Assembly District. This year's redrawing of legislative district lines put her in the new 101st.

The 101st is a long, narrow district that stretches from Oneida to Orange County and locally includes the towns of Andes, Hardenburgh, Denning, Wawarsing and Shawangunk.

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Carter, a 60-year-old machinist at Feldmeier Equipment, has served two terms as a Little Falls city alderman and one term as a Herkimer County lawmaker.

Tenney is co-owner of Mid-York Press and has a private law practice.

Tenney had said her top priorities included scaling back taxes and regulations that she said have been chasing businesses away from the Empire State; cutting state spending by reforming Medicaid; reforming the state's school aid formula to more fairly distribute money and avoid unfunded mandates on districts; moving legislators from defined benefit pensions to 401(k)-style retirement plans; and cutting both the legislative session and pay for legislators in half.

On changing the way state lawmakers are compensated, Tenney has said it would encourage people to run for state Legislature positions for the right reasons by removing the incentive for people to become career politicians beholden to special interests.

Tenney said regulations are an important function of government, but New York has created an inhospitable environment for businesses, "burying" them with paperwork, reporting requirements, taxes and fees.

Tenney has said the state needs to explore all energy resources it can but that she would not support fracking until the Department of Environmental Conservation is given the resources to properly monitor the chemicals used in the process.

Her mission, she said, is to create private-sector jobs by making New York more competitive.

Carter had said his top priorities were reigning in utility monopolies by having New York state buy controlling shares in those companies, banning the natural gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), consolidating services across municipalities with an eye toward eventually merging government entities and moving toward a system in which everyone votes by mail.

Carter said energy costs are driving businesses out of the state and preventing them from coming to the region, and he proposes New York put an end to utility monopolies by buying controlling shares in expensive utilities in an effort to cut expenses for businesses and consumers.

He also raised the controversy about seizing properties through eminent domain to build a pipeline through New York and suggested the state could build the line along major highways.

Citing situations in which counties, towns and villages increasingly struggle to provide services, Carter suggested a movement toward consolidating police, public works and fire services among those municipalities to get a handle on taxes and help keep necessary services viable under the new tax cap.

On fracking, Carter said clean water is too important to the state's economy, particularly agriculture, to risk contaminating it with the chemicals used in the process. He said perhaps natural gas companies can figure out a method that does not rely on pumping chemicals into the ground.